Building your PLN one link at a time.

Getting Started

Ahhh, those pesky PLN's!

• Who uses PLN?
• What are PLN's good for?
• Where can you find PLN's?
• How do people expand theri PLN's?

What about you?

• Who is in your PLN?
• What do you use your PLN for?
• Where is your PLN located?
• How can you or do you want to expand your PLN?

Today's Challenge Questions

• How do you grow your PLN?
• How do you monitor it?
• How do you know when to turn it off?

We're going to take a poll using our cell phones and a site called Celly http://cel.ly

• Add contact 23559
• then send message to @myplns to join this poll. I will confirm.
• (To take a poll be sure to type in "poll" and send to your cell to open a poll.)

The question will be: Which sites do you use for your PLN?

1. Twitter
2. Facebook
3. ASCD
4. TeachersFirst OK2Ask
5. K12Online
6. RSS
7. Diigo
8. iTunes U
9. MIT free online courses
10. Verizon Thinkfinity
11. Google for Educators
12. Google Scholar
13. Intel for Education
14. ISTE Webinars
15. eMInts
16. Connected Learning Exchange
17. Partnership for 21st Century Learning
18. Learn it in 5
19. LinkedIn
20. Alison.com
21. ning.com
22. Other college online course
23. None
24. Some/All
25. Add more that aren't here!

(This is also an example of how you can use cells in your class if you aren't already.)

A Little Background: Stages of PLN adoption

http://www.thethinkingstick.com/stages-of-pln-adoption

The Networked Student--And Teacher

Let's go with Stage 1- Immersion

• Twitter

  • Twitter.com/search

  • #edchat--(hashtags define searches)

    • Yes, but what are tags / hashtags?

      
      

      Tags are keywords or terms that describe a piece of information on the web and

      
      

      hashtags are Twitter-specific tags.

  • search for a topic of your choice

  • join if you haven't already

  • Tweet or "retweet" a PLN source you found interesting

• Diigo-Social Bookmarking site

  • diigo.com

  • search: PLN

  • search for a topic of your choice

  • join if you haven't already

  • be sure to sign up for an educator's account

  • Join a group you found and post a bookmark to that group

Is it time for tutorials on either group or have you figured them out?

• Diigo
  • https://sites.google.com/site/team8project9440/using-diigo-in-the-classroom-2
• Twitter
  • http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/2011/06/21/pln-challenge-3-using-twitter-to-build-your-pln/
    
    

Find one more from the above list or your own interest and spend time searching.

Or try these fun but education sites you and your students can use to create a 21st Century learning PLN in your class:

• Jing
• Prezi
• VoiceThread
• Engrade
• Storybird
• Wordle
• Tagxedo
• Pinterest

Sharing and Wrap up.

My contact:

Email: kmalsbenden@gmail.com

Celly: text @myplns to 23559

Twitter: @kathymals

Diigo: kmalsbenden

Facebook: kmalsbenden@gmail.com